Mein Kampf Readigs

In the two section of Mein Kampf we read talk mainly about the superior race and how it is being held back. This reading was someone disturbing but also very interest. Just how someone can tie the existence of the jewish faith and its followers to the thing that is holding back the "superior race." He started off Nation and the Race talking aout how naturally, cats with mate with cats, dogs with dogs, and so on. These things are true to nature, but then he goes into a superior person mating with an inferior person is cruel to the offspring, and the racially pure mustg refrain from doing so. After this, he defines jews as the lesser race, saying that they are plauging the human race, and holding back their true potential. I do not agree with this, i think that in the human race there is no superior or inferior separations, we are all one race and when we cross between eachother we are sharing our cultures, ideas, and ways of life. I look at his readings and i see extreme nationalism, where he is always pushing for the advancement of the Aryan race, but there is never cooperation between other countries, there is no national community in which each country will benefit. In his eyes, the country will benefit by "purifying" the nation and making it supirior, and by controlling this pure race, the state will become superior to all others. I do not agree with his ideas, but it is still very interesting that he was able to captivate so many people and achieve so much with this radical(in our eyes) idea.

This is What Democracy Looks Like

I liked this video, it really showed a different perspective than what we often see from mainstream media. I like how it reinforced the idea that people will always come together for whatever reason, be it to get their daily bread or to stand up for a cause. Like someone said in the movie, the people who exploit the earths resources are the same people who exploit human resources, so they were made for each other. I agree with what someone said in the video, that people have the right of assembly and protest, until you actually begin to make a change. which at what point the government breaches people's rights to shut down any impending revolution. It seems sad that something like this happens, because in reality we are trapped, we may not see i directly. But any direct demand for change will not come easily. I think that the people in the video give hope to an idea for anarchism or socialism, because it shows collaboration and cooperation for a cause. But the only problem is these are the people fighting for the cause they care about, this is not the entire population, which would need to be involved in a socialist or anarchist society, which makes me a little more skeptical about all people working together

I thin that the perspective of this reading is very interesting. It makes many assumptions about huan nature that are contradictory with other ideologies. Fvor example, he says that in the end humans cooperating for the greater good of the community will be beneficial for everyone. This is contradicted by some ideas others including Hobbes, who think that people are lzy and untrustworthy and without any structure nothing will be accomplished. The other assumptions that are made in this reading are that humans will always be overcome by greed. I do think that this is very much true about human nature but there are many exceptions.

Capitalism he says is the main enemy of Socialism. He says that capitalism is leading to the destruction of society and the environment, and that the socialist reforms that can be made will help restrain the devestation brought on by capitalism which is fed by human greed.

I agree with some of his points, that our capitalist society is leading to the destruction of our environment, but i also think that capitalism in our society is adjusting to the retraints of the environment, mainly by limitations of our government, and not by choice. I disagree on the other hand, with the points he makes about human nature. That for socialism to work people will need to keep to it and keep the faith. I think that in our society today, people are far too often too comfortable with where they are at, and will often takethe easy way out to save themelves some trouble. I do think that humans still cooperate for the greater good, but only to a certain point.